After Recklessly Courting Death, I Caught the Attention of a Yandere - Chapter 81

Now it was Dongfang Wuchen’s turn to feel depressed.

He had never known that he had a biological older brother in this world, and that this biological brother was none other than the so-called great demon Xiao Yueqing.

All of this seemed far too absurd.

He shook his head, looking at Xiao Yueqing with disbelief on his face.

“How is that possible? My parents only had me. If before this, my father and his first wife had my older sister, then how could I still have a biological older brother?”

Xiao Yueqing didn’t feel angry at all.

He knew that Mu Lan had hidden all the previous information, so people like Dongfang Wuchen and many others had no idea that Mu Lan had another child before.

He reached out and patted Dongfang Wuchen’s shoulder, beginning to explain.

“I really am your biological older brother, but we don’t share the same father. My father was Xiao Yi, the former master of Tianqing Manor, and my mother is your mother Mu Lan, though back then she was still called Tang Lan.

Actually, you’re very smart, so haven’t you ever wondered why your mother, who was born into the Tang Sect and is sisters with your father’s first wife, doesn’t have the surname Tang?”

This question really stumped Dongfang Wuchen.

When he was young, he had indeed been curious about why his mother, despite being sisters with his father’s first wife, didn’t have the surname Tang but was surnamed Mu instead.

At that time, his parents hadn’t told him the reason, just telling him not to worry about it anymore.

Over time, Dongfang Wuchen had forgotten about this matter.

When Xiao Yueqing brought it up this time, he realized that everything seemed far too absurd.

However, this still wasn’t enough to make him believe that Xiao Yueqing was his biological older brother.

“I don’t understand. If you really are my biological older brother, why has Mother never mentioned this, and why does Mother hate you to the bone?”

This was a grudge between the previous generation, so Xiao Yueqing didn’t really want to tell Dongfang Wuchen about it.

He just patted Dongfang Wuchen’s head and said, “I don’t really want to tell you about matters from the previous generation. You just need to understand that I’m your older brother.

Everyone in this world might harm you, but I won’t. I may resent you and dislike you, but I absolutely would never want you to die.”

How could Dongfang Wuchen not understand these words?

It must be because of the grudges between Mother, Xiao Yi, and Father—the three of them.

It must be because of something that happened, which is why Mother never wanted to tell anyone that she had such a son.

After hesitating for a while, Dongfang Wuchen still raised his head and called out, “Brother.”

This word “brother” contained thousands of emotions.

Although Dongfang Wuchen did call Xiao Yueqing “brother,” it was more from a lack of understanding.

But he wouldn’t show this in front of Xiao Yueqing.

“Brother, I don’t understand why you’ve become like this. Mother never mentioned you to me. I always feel that you shouldn’t be some great demon. I can sense it.”

Xiao Yueqing didn’t plan to tell Dongfang Wuchen about this.

In fact, he didn’t know how to explain it either.

Should he talk about all the suffering he had endured?

That would really be like seeking pity.

Although Xiao Yueqing didn’t say anything, Dongfang Wuchen seemed to remember something.

He murmured to himself, “I remember when I was very young, I was poisoned once. To save me, Mother supposedly spent a very long time preparing the antidote to save me, otherwise I would have died long ago.”

At first, Dongfang Wuchen naturally wouldn’t have thought about these things.

But combined with this recent poisoning, and the fact that Xiao Yueqing had saved him, Dongfang Wuchen suddenly became suspicious.

He saved me?

How could he cure my poison?

“The poison in my body was a rare poison. Even when my mother prepared the antidote back then, it took her a very, very long time. But I don’t understand why you could cure the poison in my body.”

Xiao Yueqing originally didn’t want to tell Dongfang Wuchen about these things.

He had grown up surrounded by everyone’s love and had never been exposed to those terrible things.

His own past would definitely frighten Dongfang Wuchen.

Of course, the most fundamental reason was that Xiao Yueqing himself didn’t really want to bring it up.

But Dongfang Wuchen was very persistent.

As if he wouldn’t let Xiao Yueqing leave without knowing the truth.

“Brother, you’re my brother. Won’t you tell me? I really want to know what happened back then, and what exactly you went through to become like this.”

Xiao Yueqing couldn’t resist Dongfang Wuchen and could only tell him part of the information.

“I can cure your poison because I’m immune to all poisons, plus I was once infected with the same poison as you, so my blood can cure the poison in your body. And besides the person who administered the poison, only I can cure it.”

Dongfang Wuchen was such an intelligent person—how could he not guess that there was a hidden story behind what happened back then?

“So when I was poisoned as a child, it was also you who cured my poison, right? Or rather, when my mother claimed she researched for a long time to find the antidote, she actually poisoned you, didn’t she?”

Although Dongfang Wuchen didn’t want to think of Mu Lan this way.

The facts were right before his eyes.

Xiao Yueqing’s silence, in Dongfang Wuchen’s eyes, became a tacit admission.

Dongfang Wuchen had always believed that he was able to survive his childhood because he was lucky.

Also because his mother knew how to cure poisons.

But now he discovered that everything was different from what he had imagined.

The fruits he had enjoyed came from another person’s suffering.

In the end, Xiao Yueqing just shook his head and said, “Don’t think about this question anymore. If there are some things you truly want to know, go ask your mother. I won’t say anything. Also, I’m very grateful that you once spoke well of me. When we meet again in the future, you and I will still be enemies.”

With that, he turned and left.

Watching Xiao Yueqing’s departing figure, Dongfang Wuchen felt a deep desire to despise himself for the first time.

“I always feel that he suffered so much because of me, but he won’t tell me. Do I really have to go ask Mother?”

But after Xiao Yueqing left Dongfang Wuchen’s room, he didn’t expect to find Mu Lan standing in the courtyard.

Mu Lan looked at Xiao Yueqing who had just emerged, with many words she wanted to say in her heart.

But Xiao Yueqing glanced at her and was about to leave directly.

“Yueqing, can you wait? I want to talk with you.”

Xiao Yueqing stopped in his tracks but didn’t choose to turn around.

“There’s nothing for us to talk about, Madam Dongfang. You represent the righteous side, while I’m the great demon. Wouldn’t talking with me lower your status?”

Mu Lan felt that Xiao Yueqing’s words were like knives stabbing into her.

She didn’t understand.

Ten years ago, he wasn’t like this at all.

“Yueqing, is it because you hate what I did ten years ago? But I had no choice—I was trying to save your younger brother…”